Lightning striking fluorescent serpents
 
                                           This wave of hot chrome metal breath over my spine

                                           Lets have another drink

                                           while the hailstones and demon rain
                                           bounce off the corrugated roadhouse roof

                                           Lets swallow our spirits
                                           and obliterate the night
 

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                                                             Moving star
                                                             bird of fire
                                                             open your wings across the sky

                                           A white hot poker
                                           this fervent tongue
                                           is burning a hole in my spine
 
                                                             O ceaseless opal phoenix, sing!

                                           Lets have another drink

                                           while the thunder roars
                                           and spreads its dread
                                           a hundred miles around

                                           Lets put another quarter in the jukebox
 

*
 

                                                              Moving star
                                                              bird of fire
                                                                your light is a voice

                                           Oblivion

                                                               your light is a song

                                           utter oblivion

                                                               blowing the veils
                                                               away from my eyes

                                           obliterated in a long black tunnel of clouds
                                           we drove the carweird insect harmonies
                                           currents of airviolent, vertical movements
                                           of heat escaping the ground surface
                                           the shock to the eyesbloody green toads
                                           and dismembered lizards falling out of the sky
                                           an army of locusts alighting on the windshield
                                           we drove the car on, into the dark Dakota night
                                           longing, longing for unnamable things
 

*
 

                                           Lightning striking fluorescent serpents

                                           These sudden waves of gasoline breath over the spine

                                           Lets have another drink
                                           while the thunder roars

                                           Lets have another drink

                                           full of smoke, noise, and confusion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

C 1998 Janet Hamill